MADRID.- Last week was the presentation of MADRIDFOTO, the international fair showcasing galleries focusing on the new collecting of photography, which will be held for the first time from May 7th to May 10th.

The fair will be held at Madrid's trade fair pavilion 6, which has been designed for the occasion by Andrés Jaque with a spatial concept conceived especially to enhance the works shown by the 47 participating galleries.

Participating galleries: 3 punts Galería, Barcelona / Adhoc, Vigo / Blanca Berlín Galería, Madrid / Carles Taché Galería, Barcelona / Carlos Carvalho ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA, Lisbon / Dolores de Sierra, Madrid / Drissien Galerie, Munich / Ego Gallery, Barcelona / El Museo, Bogotá / Espacio Mínimo, Madrid / Estiarte, Madrid / Fernando Pradilla, Madrid / Flatland, Utrecht / Fúcares, Madrid / Galería Cubo Azul, León / Galería Enrique Guerrero, México, D.F. / Galería Hartmann, Barcelona / Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid / Galería Juan Silió, Santander / Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid / Galería La Caja Negra, Madrid / Galería Màrio Sequeira, Braga / Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona / Galería Oliva Arauna, Madrid / Galería Senda, Barcelona / Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid / Galería Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza / Galería Tagomago, Barcelona / Galería Vértice, Oviedo / Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg / Galerie Du Jour, Paris / Galerie VU´, Paris / Gallery Taik, Berlin - Helsinki / Guidi&Schoen CONTEMPORARY ART, Genova / Kunstagenten, Berlin / La Fábrica Galería, Madrid / Luciana Brito Galería, São Paulo / Luis Adelantado Valencia-Miami / MasArt, Barcelona / Max Estrella, Madrid / Moriarty, Madrid / My Name Is Lolita Art, Valencia-Madrid / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Patricia Conde Galería, Huixquilucan / Sandunga, Granada / Travesía Cuatro, Madrid / Vanguardia, Bilbao

MADRIDFOTO will show the work of more than 230 artists from all over the world, including photography by Alberto García Alix, Andrés Serrano, Antoni Muntadas, Axel Hütte, Bleda y Rosa, Caio Reisewitz, Candida Höfer, Chema Madoz, Cornelia Parker, Cristina García Rodero, Duane Michals, Edward Burtynsky, Erwin Olaf, Isabel Muñoz, Jean-Marc Bustamante, José Manuel Ballester, Marina Abramovic, Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, Phillip Lorca-DiCorcia, Pierre Gonnord, Rineke Dijsktra, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roland Fischer, Sean Scully, Sergey Bratkov, Sergio Belinchón, Stan Douglas, Sylvia Plachy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Xavier Miserachs...

In order to guarantee the artistic quality of the event, MADRIDFOTO has an advisory committee comprised by Rafael Doctor (art critic and founder of MUSAC), Lorena Martinez de Corral (freelance curator and director of Expoactual), Rosa Olivares (curator, editor and director of the specialised magazine EXIT) and Giulietta Speranza (MADRIDFOTO artistic director).